Rush Street

Domaine, the Rush Street restaurant/nightclub, continues its Monday Movie Nights with a series of love stories. They include "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the 1994 movie by Stephan Elliott with Terence Stamp, Monday; "The Way We Were," the 1973 film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, Jan. 13; the 1970 Arthur Hiller film "Love Story" with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal Jan. 20; and "An Affair to Remember," a 1957 movie...

By Peter Nickeas and Carlos Sadovi and Tribune reporters | April 4, 2014

More than $100,000 worth of purses, shoes and clothes were taken from a high-end boutique off the Magnificent Mile early this morning by robbers who pulled up in an dark SUV and smashed the front window, police said. The thieves hit the Saint Laurent Paris store in the 900 block of Rush Street around 2:45 a.m., police said. The robbers used a blunt object, possibly a bat, to break the window and then rushed into the store, police said. A witness saw several men...

It was the premier jet-set meeting hall, where customers during the early `70s became lifetime members for $50, where a wave of the blue plastic membership card got a nod from the doorman and an envious stare from those who tried to pay their way inside. And now it is gone. Faces, the former "show us your card" disco at 940 N. Rush St., has closed its doors after 18 years. But not without a wink. The public and its 16,000 card-carrying members were invited to "be a part of...

The Active Transportation Alliance has proposed a list of 20 locations that it says have strong potential to be transformed into car-free streets and public plazas. Downtown Dearborn and/or Clark streets, River North to South Loop. Monroe Avenue between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive. Segments of Oak Street and Rush Street in the Gold Coast. Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile. North ...

Marcus Hotels and Resorts said it has agreed to develop and manage a 250-room luxury hotel at 630 N. Rush St., occupying part of an existing building and constructing a new three-story addition. Work on the hotel, which will include a restaurant, rooftop garden and ballroom, is expected to begin early next year and be completed in June 2000.

The special Cook County prosecutor appointed to investigate a controversial 2004 death involving a nephew of then-Mayor Richard Daley's could wrap up the probe as early as next week, sources told the Tribune on Wednesday. The special prosecutor, Dan Webb, has been silent on the progress of the probe since July, when he told reporters that a special grand jury with full subpoena powers had been convened to investigate the death of David Koschman. The grand...

"Rush Street," a businessman in a Manhattan hotel bar said. "That's the street where all the good restaurants are," he added, with the kind of authority an expensive necktie automatically bestows. I made a mental note of his advice, then promptly forgot it. But a few weeks ago, having spent my first Saturday afternoon as a new Chicagoan, my fiance, Will, and I, dog tired and looking like hell, innocently headed down a nearby lane--Rush Street--and into the first...

Phil Stefani's 437 Rush 437 N. Rush St., Chicago Who eats: Businesspeople and others who make their way to lower-level Rush Street. Why eat: Good food in ample portions in a congenial atmosphere. Ambience: Airy, golden and warm. Dark wood trim, including a wine rack that divides the dining room into more intimate spaces, provides a pleasing counterpoint to the white linen tablecloths, checkerboard floor tiles and scattered...

You might think we spend an inordinate amount of time on Rush Street, reliving old memories, but such is the nature of a street in transition that we are drawn back often. Our latest foray took place a few days ago and drew us to Rush and Delaware, at the back end of the block fronted, rather prominently, by the Michigan Avenue entrance to Bloomingdale's. The corner where we stood was once, we knew immediately though we hadn`t thought about it for some time, the Happy Medium.

Giordano's flagship restaurant at 740 N. Rush Street is among 14 locations now officially up for sale in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of the Chicago-based pizza chain. Northbrook-based Hilco Real Estate, which has been hired to sell the properties, said Friday that bids are being solicited for the entire chain, as well as individual properties. Giordano's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February . Shortly thereafter, Hilco and William Blair & Co....

Following a multimillion dollar reconstruction project, the 16-story Lenox House has opened. Located at 616 N. Rush St., the newest all-suite hotel in Chicago has 330 suites and is geared for midlevel business travelers. The Hayman Co. started reconstruction 13 months ago. The interior of the 60-year-old Croydon Hotel was gutted. Walls were replaced, and completely new heating/ventilation, mechanical and electrical systems were installed. The resulting 330...

While Oak Street flounders with record vacancies in the wake of the global luxury recession, adjacent Rush Street is coming into its own as a shopping strip for the rich and fabulous. Leading the charge is a striking new Hermes flagship at Oak and Rush streets that is drawing the nucleus of Chicago's high-end fashion energy west to Rush. In June, the Parisian salon best known for its $375 silk scarves and $10,000 Birkin bags moved from Oak's dead zone near the shuttered Esquire...

The neighbhorhood saloon is being torn down, but the old neighborhood died almost a decade ago. It was in August of 1975 when Mister Kelly's closed its doors for good. The nightclub for 22 years had been at once the country's premiere showcase for the stars of the day as well as the most important venue for the stars of tomorrow. Many were the comics and singers whose careers took off after performing as the opening act at Kelly's. Among the names that graced Mister Kelly's marquee...

Bernadette "Betty" Sandberg, a longtime Hinsdale resident, performed as a dancer in leading theaters and clubs around the country in the 1930s and '40s and also took her solo act on the road for USO tours during World War II. Mrs. Sandberg, 91, whose unique style of dance blended tap and ballet, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, in her home after a long illness, family members said. "It was a time in her life when she really loved to dance," said her husband of 58 years, Wallace. "And she...

At least 10 Chicago police officers are being investigated for the alleged sale, distribution and use of narcotics along the Rush Street night club district as part of a continuing federal investigation into drug use by police, top police sources said Monday. The officers under investigation reportedly are from the plainclothes tactical unit of the Chicago Avenue District, which patrols the Rush Street and Old Town areas and the Cabrini-Green Chicago Housing Authority development.

If any of Chicago's 44 million annual tourists make it to the recently renovated Water Works Visitor Center (163 E. Pearson St., explorechicago.org, they're doing all right on their own. Nestled within the pumping station across from the historic Water Tower, this facility sits alongside Michigan Avenue, the main artery of tourism for the city. So in that regard, putting this facility here seems a little strange -- like installing a way-finding station to Chicago's most historic ballpark...

Rush Street, the fabled haunt of college kids and tired businessmen looking for drink and dangerous liaisons, may be turning into a high-toned residential neighborhood. Chicago's Golub & Co. is planning a 41-story residential tower with 189 condominiums on the southeast corner of Rush Street and Delaware Place that will include penthouse suites to go on the market for more than $1.3 million apiece. The project, with an estimated sales value that could hit close to...